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Carry the Corner | Pastor Trev Evans · Koinonia Christian Center

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  Come on, grab your Bibles and let's get
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  ready to make our confession. Whether
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  that's a paper Bible,
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  phone, tablet, whatever you have, y'all.
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  I'm doing all I can to stay in this hat.
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  Do you hear me?
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  >> I'm going to do it as long as I can in
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  Jesus name. Come on, hold it up. Let's
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  make our confession. Let's say, "This is
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  my Bible.
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  >> This is my Bible.
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  >> It is God's word.
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  >> It reveals to me.
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  >> It reveals to me
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  >> God's will.
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  >> Therefore,
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  >> therefore,
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  >> it's the final authority. authority
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  >> to which I submit
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  >> to settle all the issues
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  >> settle all the issues
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  >> of my life
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  >> it is the standard
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  >> is the standard
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  >> of my conduct
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  >> of my
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  >> and the basis basis
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  >> of all my expectations
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  >> Come on shout it out I am
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  >> I am
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  >> what it says I am
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  >> I possess
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  >> what it says I possess
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  >> what it says I pos
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  >> and I can do
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  >> I can do
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  >> absolutely everything
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  >> it says I can do
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  >> I'm a believer
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  >> not a doubter
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  I'm a doer.
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  >> I'm a doer.
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  >> Not just a hearer.
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  >> And my life
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  >> my everyday life
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  >> My everyday life
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  >> is the better
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  >> is the better.
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  >> After having heard
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  >> after heard
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  >> the word of faith.
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  >> The word of faith.
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  >> Faith comes by hearing.
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  >> Faith comes by hearing
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  >> and hearing.
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  >> And hearing by
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  >> hearing
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  >> the word of God.
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  >> Word of God.
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  >> Let's ride.
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  >> Man, I'm so glad to see you in that
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  chain. I just know. I know there's too
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  many of us in here for me to be the only
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  one.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Yes, sir.
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  All right. Yes, sir. God knows I love
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  the sound team. Jesus.
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  Listen, we going to Mark chapter 2. Mark
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  chapter 2. Mark chapter 2. Those who do
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  not know, we are on our 40-day corporate
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  fast. And this year, we are going to be
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  in the book of Mark the entire time. And
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  so, we are teaching every morning uh
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  from the book of Mark. Y'all, let me
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  pause for a second. Did Pastor Christie
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  not teach her face off these past two
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  days? Do you hear me?
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  >> God almighty knows.
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  Jesus, Lord have mercy. I called her. I
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  said, "Listen, I know what the book
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  said, but we might need one more day on
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  solitude."
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  >> My God.
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  And so, we are in the book of Mark and
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  uh it is incred. Buckle your seat belt
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  cuz Pastor Shandelle going to be
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  released this week.
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  And we are in the book of Mark. And so
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  today we are in the book. We're not
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  deviating from that. Mark chapter 2
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  beginning at verse one. Let me let me
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  read a couple verses. And it says,
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  "And again he entered Capernaum.
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  After some days and it was heard that he
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  was in the house. Immediately many
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  gathered together so that there was no
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  longer room to receive them, not even
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  near the door. And he preached the word
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  to them. Then they came to him bringing
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  a paralytic who was carried by four. And
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  when they could not come near him
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  because of the crowd, they uncovered the
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  roof where he was. So when they had
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  broken through, they let down the bed on
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  which the paralytic was lying.
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  Yeah. We want to talk from the subject
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  today, carry the corner.
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  >> Carry the corner. I'm not a touch your
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  neighbor kind of preacher, but I need
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  you to bump him this one time and bump
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  him and tell him say, "Carry the
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  corner."
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  >> Carry the corner.
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  >> As Pastor Sedette
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  said in the video, we live in the most
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  connected era in human history. Yet we
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  are starving for true relationships.
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  >> You can have a thousand friends online
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  and not have four people that you can
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  call when life gets hard.
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  >> Loneliness isn't just a social trend. It
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  is a spiritual weight crushing every
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  generation in America. We are physically
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  crowded but spiritually isolated.
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  hiding our match behind filters and
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  photos and busy calendars.
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  According to the latest data, I got my
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  own data. Pastor Sedette, let's ride
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  from the US surgeon general. In 2026,
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  the isolate this isolation is a national
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  emergency
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  >> among teens. 79% of Gen Z report feeling
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  chronically lonely. the highest rate
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  ever recorded.
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  For those in their 20s and 30s, 70% of
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  of these adults feel lonely even in a
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  crowd,
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  paralyzed by the high pressure of
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  transitions, of career, of identity, and
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  starting families. Middle-aged adults
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  over 45 suffer from persistent
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  loneliness that affects their physical
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  health.
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  And one in four adults over the age of
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  65 are socially isolated.
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  A health risk, I mind you, that the
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  surgeon general equates to smoking 15
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  cigarettes per day.
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  >> Catch this. That that level of
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  loneliness impacts our seniors
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  physically as if they were smoking 15
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  cigarettes a day.
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  You and I must understand that this
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  isolation isn't just a social trend.
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  It's a spiritual battleground.
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  >> The enemy wants you isolated because a
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  lone sheep is an easy target.
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  >> My God.
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  >> In our text in Mark chapter 2, Jesus had
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  just finished grally uh journeying
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  through Galilee, healing lepers and
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  confronting demons. As pastor Christie
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  taught on yesterday, Jesus was trending.
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  Everybody was talking about this healer.
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  And when chapter 2 opens up with his
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  return to Capernaum where he was living
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  now, Capernaum was not a quiet village.
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  It was a hightraic fishing hub known as
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  Jesus's headquarters. This is where
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  Jesus actually lived for a period of
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  time. It was a melting pot of Roman
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  soldiers, wealthy merchants, and tired
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  laborers. Actually, the perfect place
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  for a miracle to disrupt the status quo.
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  In first century Capernaum, the house
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  was the center of life with flat roofs
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  made by timber and packed down with
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  earth. As Jesus stood in this crowded
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  home, the house was not just filled with
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  expecting people, but also the cold
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  scrutiny of religious leaders who had
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  come to see if this healer was really
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  who he said he was.
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  >> Yeah. But Jesus did not come to perform
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  for the religious crowd
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  >> or to debate the critics. He came to
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  meet the desperate need of individuals.
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  They understood that when you are stuck
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  in a state of total dependence, you your
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  breakthrough is not a solo mission.
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  >> When you are stuck in a state of
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  stagnate, you need to understand that
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  your breakthrough is not a solo mission.
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  >> There are some things that you can do by
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  yourself. But beloved, let me tell you,
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  there are other things that you going to
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  need some help.
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  >> Amen.
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  Ah this was not just the these guys were
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  not just being helpful though this was a
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  strategic heavy lifting kind of love.
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  >> This brings us to the heartbeat of our
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  message today. The call for all of us to
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  carry the corner.
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  >> When we talk about carrying the corner
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  we are not just talking about being nice
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  >> or being friendly.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> No. When we talk about carrying the
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  corner, we said carrying the corner
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  means, catch this, teaming up with the
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  others, with others for a season to help
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  lift someone's burden to Jesus,
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  supporting them long enough for them to
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  find healing and carry their own
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  testimony.
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  >> Boy, that is good. God almighty. Carry
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  the corner means teaming up with others.
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  YOU'RE NOT CARRYING it by yourself.
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  >> This is teaming up with other people.
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  THIS IS PARTLY WHY SOME OF YOU ARE WORN
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  OUT IS BECAUSE YOU'RE carrying people.
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  >> And God designed you to carry a corner.
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  >> Oh Lord.
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  >> Means teaming up with others for for a
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  what?
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  >> For what?
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  >> FOR WHAT?
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  >> NOT A LIFETIME.
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  >> HE'S 35.
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  HE OUGHT TO BE PAYING HIS OWN PHONE
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  BILL.
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  >> She 42.
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  >> SHE SHOULD PAY HER OWN LIGHT BILL.
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  >> YOU CARRY FOR HOW LONG?
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  >> Your neighbor didn't want to say it, but
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  it's for a season.
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  >> FOR A SEASON. CATCH THIS. TO help lift
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  someone's burdens. Where?
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  >> To Jesus.
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  >> I'm not carrying it just TO CARRY IT. MY
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  CARRYING IT HAS a destination.
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  HE SAID SOMEONE BURDENED TO to to
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  someone's burden. Carrying that burden
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  to Jesus. Wait a minute now. I'm not
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  getting ready to have another blooper
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  this week.
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  It says it says means teaming up with
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  others for a season to help lift
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  someone's burden to Jesus. Catch this.
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  Supporting them
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  just long enough
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  >> for them to do what? find healing and do
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  what?
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  >> Carry their own testimony. Boy, that is
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  good to me.
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  >> Understand something. It is the
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  recognition that while one person might
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  buckle under the weight of the mat, four
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  people can march that mat straight to
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  the feet of Jesus.
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  >> God, which leads me right into our first
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  point. Point number one is that
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  cooperative faith got him moving.
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  Cooperative faith got what kind of
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  faith?
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  >> Cooperative faith is what got him
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  moving. There it is in verse three. It
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  says, "Then they came to him
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  >> bringing a paralytic who was carried by
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  four." Understand something in the time
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  of our text. Yes, Lord. Paralysis meant
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  total dependency. Amen.
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  >> Unfortunately, there were no
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  wheelchairs.
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  >> No special accommodations to aid those
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  who were physically challenged.
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  >> Their challenges were visible.
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  >> You could see a person's paralysis by
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  the mat that he or she carried.
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  >> Yeah. Understand something. We too have
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  those who face physical paralysis in our
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  day. And thank God there are
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  accommodations in place to help them
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  navigate those physical challenges.
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  >> However,
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  today I am concerned not for those right
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  now with physical challenges. I am
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  concerned for those of us who are
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  dealing with an unseen paralysis
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  >> that often goes undetected.
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  Ah, you might be walking through the
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  grocery store, sitting in the sanctuary
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  or clocking in every day at work, but
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  internally
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  >> you are on the mat.
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  >> Ah, yeah. Because life has knocked the
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  wind out of your soul.
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  >> Yeah. You have the mobility to move, but
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  you lack the momentum to live.
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  >> Why? Because life has knocked the wind
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  out of your soul. You can be on the mat
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  of depression and grief where you have
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  the legs to walk but not the will to
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  move
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  >> because OF A HEALTH CHALLENGE OR BECAUSE
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  OF THE LOSS of a loved one. It can knock
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  you down on the mat.
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  >> Ah there's a mat of relational betrayal.
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  >> Yeah. Because I know some of you ARE
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  LISTENING TO ME now listening to me now
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  and you have already shut your Bible.
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  you have already closed your mind off
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  because you HAVE HAD A PAST WHERE
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  SOMEBODY'S BETRAYED YOU AND ANYTIME you
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  hear TALK OF TALKING ABOUT CONNECTING
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  WITH OTHERS and sharing you immediately
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  shut it down.
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  >> But you have to understand that that
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  that that is a mat.
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  >> Relational betrayal is a mat where the
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  person who was supposed to CARRY YOUR
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  CORNER IS THE one who dropped you.
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  Let me tell you something. You need a
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  circle to prove that Matt Carriers still
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  exist.
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  >> I DON'T NEED YOU. I CAN'T. NOW, YOU
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  CANNOT BELIEVE THE LIE OF THE ENEMY INTO
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  THINKING THAT EVERYBODY'S GOING TO DROP
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  YOU. YES, SOME PEOPLE MAY HAVE DROPPED
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  YOU. WE ARE HUMAN. BUT LET ME TELL YOU
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  SOMETHING. EVERYBODY WON'T DROP YOU. The
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  devil is A LIAR. EVERYBODY WON'T DROP
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  YOU. EVERYBODY WON'T DROP YOU. EVERYBODY
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  WON'T DROP YOU.
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  >> I'M TRYING TO SLAY THAT DEVIL. EVERYBODY
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  WON'T DROP YOU.
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  >> AND YOU AND I CANNOT USE THAT AS a
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  license to stay in isolation.
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  >> There's the matter of depression and
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  grief. There's the mat of relational
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  betrayal. But there's also the mat of
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  secret struggle.
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  >> Talk, Holy Ghost.
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  This is where shame and addiction makes
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  you hide.
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  >> This is perhaps the heaviest mat because
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  it's the one we try to hide under nice
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  clothes
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  and smooth cars.
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  >> Yeah. Whether it's a secret addict
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  addiction like a struggle with
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  pornography
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  >> or a secret issue like a mountain of
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  debt, if you allow it, shame will
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  paralyze your soul.
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  >> Woo.
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  It will tell you that if you reveal your
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  mat that people will stop walking with
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  you.
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  >> But I want to say it in consecutive
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  weeks. Every week I stand on this stage
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  and God gives me breath. I want to say
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  it. IT'S TOO MANY OF US IN here
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  >> for you to be the only one.
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  They may not BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR MAT,
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  BUT IF SOMEBODY ELSE HIDING THAT MAT UP
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  UNDER THE CLOTHES,
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  >> SOMEBODY ELSE
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  >> TOOK THEIR MAT IN the boot. That's
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  country for the trunk.
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  >> But it's too many of us in HERE. I DON'T
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  CARE WHAT KIND OF MAT YOU CARRYING.
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  >> I DON'T CARE IF IT'S THE STRAIN OF A
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  MARITAL RELATIONSHIP. THERE'S TOO MANY
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  OF US IN here
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  >> for you to be the only one. AND WHAT
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  HAPPENS IS THE DEVIL LIKES TO SILENCE
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  US.
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  >> The Bible CALLS HIM THE PRINCE OF
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  DARKNESS.
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  >> And whatever we keep in darkness, he has
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  dominion over. But if YOU EVER GET BOLD
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  ENOUGH TO OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH AND LET
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  SOMEBODY KNOW WHAT KIND OF MAT YOU ARE
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  CARRYING,
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  THE BIBLE SAYS IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT
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  >> AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT, THEN WE HAVE
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  FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE OF YOU AND I DON'T
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  HAVE FELLOWSHIP AND WE hiding
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  >> talk Holy Ghost.
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  >> YOU CAN COME IN HERE SUNDAY AFTER SUNDAY
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  AND NEVER CONNECT WITH ANYBODY AND YOU
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  ARE NOT HAVING FELLOWSHIP. NO MATTER HOW
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  MANY TIMES I TELL YOU, TALK TO YOUR
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  NEIGHBOR.
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  >> YOU AND I DO NOT HAVE FELLOWSHIP UNTIL
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  WE come into the light.
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  >> Now, I'm not going to act like that's
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  not scary,
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  >> because it is.
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  >> It's scary, but it's necessary.
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  >> Because there's too many of us dying in
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  isolation.
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  >> I'm not talking about physically right
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  now. I'm talking about emotionally.
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  >> I'M TALKING ABOUT MENTALLY. I'M TALKING
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  ABOUT SPIRITUALLY.
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  >> You are coming TO CHURCH AND YOU LIFTING
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  YOUR HANDS, BUT YOU DEAD ON THE INSIDE
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  BECAUSE YOU CARRYING A MAT AND YOU ARE
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  CARRIED IT BY YOURSELF.
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  >> Talk Holy Ghost.
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  >> You and I, can I tell you something? You
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  and I were not made
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  >> to do life alone.
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  >> Cuz life be
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  >> lifing.
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  Oh,
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  >> what? Life? No. Life be lifing.
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  >> No. Like life be life be liing.
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  >> Like life life.
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  Life be what?
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  >> Life be what?
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  Life be lifing
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  >> with health challenges
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  >> and bills
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  and and and
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  children
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  life be lifing
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  AND UNDERSTAND SOMETHING MANY OF US ARE
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  IN THIS BY OURSELVES.
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  IT'S IT'S NOT THAT YOU DON'T HAVE PEOPLE
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  YOU CAN CALL ON BECAUSE YOU HAVE PEOPLE
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  IN YOUR LIFE WHO SAID IF YOU NEED me
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  >> call me.
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  >> BUT YOU AND I HAVE ALLOWED PRIDE
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  >> TO MAKE US THINK THAT WE CAN HANDLE LIFE
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  ON OUR OWN.
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  >> BUT WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO do is to
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  do this life inside of a group. See,
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  hold this is what you need.
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  Yeah. Thank you, Holy Ghost.
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  You need to establish
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  relationships.
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  >> Catch this. Before you need them.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> YOU CAN'T CALL ME IN THE MIDDLE OF ME
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  MID TUG AND WE AIN'T NEVER HAD A
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  CONVERSATION. YOU WANT ME TO GET IN HERE
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  WITH THIS ROPE? I DON'T KNOW YOU.
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  WE GOT CIRCLES AFTER CIRCLES AFTER
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  CIRCLES AFTER CIRCLES FOR WOMEN, SINGLE,
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  MEN, AND MARRIED. YOU WON'T COME TO ANY
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  OF THEM.
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  >> AND THEN MAD BECAUSE YOU GOT THE ROPE BY
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  YOURSELF.
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  >> We have to establish relationships
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  before we need them.
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  >> Catch this. This is why
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  >> so that when you call on help, you don't
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  have to give a whole dissitation.
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  WHEN I GET IN TROUBLE, all I need to
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  say,
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  I NEED SOME HELP,
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  >> Y'ALL. I NEED SOME HELP. I need some
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  help. I need SOME HELP. HEY. YES, SIR.
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  OH, LISTEN TO ME.
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  >> LIFE IS NOT TOO HARD. YOU JUST DOING IT
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  BY YOURSELF.
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  >> THE DEVIL AIN'T THAT TOUGH. YOU JUST
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  DOING IT BY YOURSELF.
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  >> THAT PROBLEM IS NOT INSURMOUNTABLE. YOU
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  JUST TRYING TO DO IT BY YOURSELF.
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  YOU CAN OVERCOME THAT LUST, BUT YOU'RE
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  NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT BY
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  YOURSELF.
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  >> You got to call somebody.
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  Thank you, Lord. Understand something.
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  Your miracle is often found in the hands
• 20:30
  of the people holding your rope.
• 20:35
  >> Your miracle, YOU STANDING THERE WAITING
• 20:38
  ON GOD.
• 20:40
  >> And God said, "I've already answered
• 20:41
  your prayers.
• 20:42
  >> I sent it through people.
• 20:46
  >> God has always answered through people.
• 20:51
  It said good measure
• 20:53
  >> pressed down
• 20:55
  >> shaken together and running over
• 20:58
  >> that man talk Pastor Shandelle that man
• 21:01
  SHALL GIVE UNTO YOUR BOSOM.
• 21:04
  >> STOP STANDING OUTSIDE WITH YOUR POCKETS
• 21:06
  OPEN LIKE GOD THROWING MONEY OUT OF
• 21:07
  HEAVEN. HE'S NOT THROWING MONEY OUT OF
• 21:09
  HEAVEN. IT'S GOING TO COME THROUGH
• 21:10
  PEOPLE.
• 21:14
  Understand
• 21:18
  something. It was corporate faith
• 21:21
  that got him moving.
• 21:23
  >> IT WAS IT WAS THE FAITH OF OTHER PEOPLE
• 21:25
  COMING TOGETHER THAT GOT HIM MOVING.
• 21:29
  >> Oh my God.
• 21:31
  You have to realize that God often wraps
• 21:34
  his answers in the people he places
• 21:36
  around you.
• 21:39
  This is why you can't be This is why you
• 21:41
  can't be the last one here and the first
• 21:43
  one to leave.
• 21:46
  >> This This is This is why you This is why
• 21:47
  you need to serve somewhere in ministry.
• 21:51
  >> This is why you need to don't make
• 21:53
  excuses, but make plans to pull up on
• 21:55
  your Wednesday night of Cornelia
• 21:57
  circles.
• 22:02
  >> Oh, God. See, because what happens is
• 22:05
  you make no connections cuz the sun is
• 22:07
  shining.
• 22:09
  >> You make no You don't know. I don't know
• 22:11
  about them circles, right? Sit in a
• 22:13
  circle and talk.
• 22:16
  I don't think I feel like I don't feel
• 22:17
  like sitting on circle and talk.
• 22:20
  And that's cool until life hands you
• 22:23
  something
• 22:24
  >> that you can't solve by yourself.
• 22:28
  >> Until life hands you something OR
• 22:30
  RELATIONSHIP GOES DOWN. AND SEE WHAT
• 22:32
  HAPPENS IS OFTENTIMES in those circles,
• 22:35
  God uses other people to help us.
• 22:37
  >> I'm a witness. I already know what I'm
• 22:39
  talking about. Yeah. GOD WILL YOU GOD
• 22:40
  WILL SPEAK JUST AS GOOD through other
• 22:43
  people.
• 22:45
  >> He'll help you to REALIZE YOU THOUGHT
• 22:47
  YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE that went through
• 22:48
  that.
• 22:49
  >> You thought you were the only one going
• 22:51
  through that. And God will sit you in a
• 22:53
  group of people where somebody THAT WENT
• 22:55
  THROUGH THE SAME THING you went through.
• 22:57
  DIFFERENT NAME, DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF
• 23:00
  MONEY, same situation.
• 23:04
  >> My God.
• 23:07
  >> It was corporate faith
• 23:08
  >> that got them moving. They grabbed a
• 23:11
  corner
• 23:13
  and the It wasn't the paralyzed man
• 23:15
  faith at this point.
• 23:16
  >> It was their faith.
• 23:18
  >> It was the faith of the group.
• 23:20
  >> And so, thank you, Pastor Shandelle. Let
• 23:23
  me just say this. The four friends were
• 23:26
  only able to move the man because they
• 23:28
  could find the man.
• 23:33
  >> I love Pastor Shandelle. Yeah. The the
• 23:35
  the four friends were able to move the
• 23:37
  man because they were able to find the
• 23:39
  man. We often harbor resentment toward
• 23:42
  our community for not CARRYING OUR MAT,
• 23:44
  BUT we've been buried
• 23:47
  so deep in privacy.
• 23:51
  >> I know it just sit there. I'm going to
• 23:53
  BE DONE WHEN I get through. WE HAVE
• 23:55
  BURIED OUR MAT SO DEEP IN PRIVACY AND
• 23:57
  WE'RE MAD THAT NOBODY'S CALLING AND
• 23:59
  NOBODY'S REACHING OUT.
• 24:04
  >> GOD,
• 24:06
  >> YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING HIDE AND GO SEEK AND
• 24:07
  YOU MAD CUZ NOBODY HAS FOUND YOU.
• 24:13
  >> But they a they WERE ABLE TO CARRY HIM
• 24:15
  BECAUSE THEY COULD FIND HIM.
• 24:18
  >> My God. It was corporate faith that got
• 24:22
  him going.
• 24:23
  >> It was corporate faith that got him
• 24:25
  going. Number two, it was relentless
• 24:27
  faith that got him to Jesus.
• 24:31
  >> Come on, Bible. It was relentless faith
• 24:33
  that got him to corporate faith got him
• 24:36
  moving,
• 24:37
  >> but it was relentless faith that got him
• 24:39
  to Jesus.
• 24:40
  >> Yeah. Talk Bible. Verse four, it says,
• 24:42
  "When they could not come near him
• 24:46
  because of the crowd, they uncovered the
• 24:49
  roof where he was." Let me just stop
• 24:53
  right there. Oh, these notes ain't going
• 24:56
  to help me right now. Hold. Listen. They
• 24:58
  unc They They weren't moved by the
• 25:00
  crowd.
• 25:03
  >> They didn't let the crowd stop them.
• 25:07
  >> Catch this. They they didn't
• 25:09
  spiritualize inconvenience.
• 25:15
  >> THEY DIDN'T SPIRITUAL THEY DIDN'T GET
• 25:17
  the man there.
• 25:20
  They They didn't get the man there.
• 25:24
  Just let me carry the cop by myself for
• 25:25
  a little bit. They didn't carry the cop
• 25:27
  up there and they say, "Lord, they too
• 25:30
  many people.
• 25:34
  Jesus, what are they DOING GIVING AWAY
• 25:36
  FOOD? WHAT
• 25:40
  It must not be God's will today.
• 25:49
  >> They coming up and bringing him to
• 25:51
  Jesus. It's raining outside.
• 25:57
  It must not be I know I'm talking good
• 25:59
  today.
• 26:01
  >> It must not be the will of God today.
• 26:02
  Hey, must must I'm going to go back and
• 26:04
  online.
• 26:08
  >> They didn't spiritualize
• 26:10
  >> in. It was a resilient faith.
• 26:15
  >> See, corporate faith will get you
• 26:16
  moving.
• 26:17
  >> But it takes resilient faith to get to
• 26:19
  Jesus.
• 26:20
  >> LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. YOU'RE NOT
• 26:22
  GOING TO GET YOU DO NOT be
• 26:25
  taken back
• 26:27
  when the enemy puts things in your in
• 26:30
  your path on your way to Jesus.
• 26:33
  There are some people that you are
• 26:35
  believing God for and WHEN YOU START
• 26:38
  PRAYING FOR THEM AND YOU PUT THEIR NAME
• 26:40
  on the board, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY GET
• 26:42
  WORSE.
• 26:45
  >> BUT THAT'S NOT THE TIME FOR US TO GIVE
• 26:46
  UP.
• 26:47
  >> THAT'S NOT THE TIME FOR US TO PUNK OUT.
• 26:49
  WE MUST HAVE RESILIENT FAITH.
• 26:53
  >> I WILL NOT ALLOW ANY CROWD TO KEEP ME
• 26:56
  FROM GETTING TO JESUS.
• 27:01
  They had a relentless kind of faith.
• 27:03
  They were resilient.
• 27:06
  >> They they Scott they they were they were
• 27:07
  resil. Thank you, Lord. God said
• 27:12
  their their their relentless faith
• 27:15
  had to do with their conviction about
• 27:17
  what Jesus could do.
• 27:21
  >> THEY WERE THIS WAS NOT this was not some
• 27:24
  casual kind of, oh, I think he can heal
• 27:28
  him.
• 27:30
  They had a conviction
• 27:33
  >> that Jesus is who he said HE WAS.
• 27:36
  >> THEY HAD A CONVICTION THAT IF I COULD
• 27:38
  JUST GET HIM TO JESUS. SEE, THAT'S WHAT
• 27:40
  THAT'S what I believe. We wouldn't be so
• 27:43
  easily pursu dissuaded
• 27:46
  >> if we had a strong conviction.
• 27:49
  >> WE WOULDN'T LET THE CROWD STOP US
• 27:52
  >> IF WE HAD A REAL CONVICTION. WE WOULDN'T
• 27:55
  LET INCONVENIENCE HINDER us if we HAD A
• 27:59
  REAL CONVICTION.
• 28:00
  >> WHEN I BELIEVE DOWN AND I KNOW DOWN IN
• 28:03
  MY SOUL THAT JESUS IS ABLE TO HEAL YOU,
• 28:06
  I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENED.
• 28:10
  >> I hear you, PASTOR TRACY. I DON'T CARE
• 28:12
  WHAT THEY SAY.
• 28:14
  >> I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE UP ON THE FIRST NO
• 28:16
  THEY GIVE ME
• 28:18
  >> BECAUSE I KNOW DOWN IN MY SOUL THAT
• 28:20
  JESUS IS THE ANSWER FOR WHATEVER THEY'RE
• 28:23
  FACING.
• 28:25
  OH, I HEAR YOU. YEAH, YOU TELL ME NO
• 28:28
  TODAY, BUT I'LL BE BACK.
• 28:31
  >> OH,
• 28:33
  I wish I had some women in here who used
• 28:34
  TO GO TO THE CLUB, AND THAT ONE
• 28:36
  INTERESTING GUY WOULD NEVER GIVE UP.
• 28:41
  BOY, you go TO THE CLUB LAST WEEK, HE'LL
• 28:44
  PULL UP ON YOU AND BUY YOU A DRINK, AND
• 28:46
  YOU'LL TELL HIM YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED.
• 28:48
  YOU THINK HE GONNA GIVE UP? NEXT WEEK.
• 28:53
  He be right there.
• 28:57
  >> Yes, sir.
• 28:57
  >> That's how some of you GOT THE HUSBAND
• 28:59
  YOU GOT RIGHT NOW. HE AIN'T GIVE UP.
• 29:11
  But God said we must have the same type
• 29:13
  of conviction
• 29:15
  >> that we won't let obstacles
• 29:18
  >> or the crowd
• 29:20
  >> or inconvenience
• 29:22
  stop us.
• 29:24
  >> They had relentless faith.
• 29:27
  >> Their faith was so relentless that the
• 29:29
  crowd didn't even deter them.
• 29:32
  The Bible said that when they came up
• 29:34
  and saw the crowd was there, they said,
• 29:39
  "Shoot, there's another way.
• 29:42
  >> Get that. Bring them upstairs."
• 29:44
  Upstairs.
• 29:50
  There's There's not a patio
• 29:53
  or access door.
• 29:55
  >> Upstairs. WHY WHY ARE WE GOING UPSTAIRS?
• 30:00
  Because when you have a conviction, sir,
• 30:03
  >> you don't let obstacles stop you.
• 30:07
  >> You search for opportunities.
• 30:10
  >> YOU DON'T LET OBSTACLES STOP YOU. The
• 30:13
  Bible said that they went up, took this
• 30:16
  joker. Catch this. They not joker. I'm
• 30:18
  sorry. That's my Aiden coming out.
• 30:22
  Bible says that when they could not come
• 30:24
  near him because of the crowd, they
• 30:26
  uncovered the roof
• 30:28
  >> where he was,
• 30:30
  >> they started breaking. This is not their
• 30:32
  house.
• 30:34
  >> They start breaking up the roof
• 30:37
  of A HOUSE THAT JESUS WAS STAYING IN.
• 30:40
  >> And understand something. JESUS DIDN'T
• 30:42
  GET MAD.
• 30:43
  >> Jesus didn't get upset.
• 30:47
  They found a way.
• 30:52
  >> We we talking about about about groups
• 30:54
  and and these kind of God is calling
• 30:56
  some of you to find a way to lead a life
• 31:00
  group.
• 31:02
  >> No, it's not it's not. You're going to
• 31:03
  have to make the time to lead a group.
• 31:06
  >> You got to find some OF YOU NEED TO FIND
• 31:08
  A way
• 31:09
  >> to make your way on these Wednesday
• 31:11
  night for corner circles.
• 31:13
  >> You got you got to you got to you got to
• 31:15
  move something. YOU GOT TO TEST
• 31:16
  SOMETHING UP. RIGHT.
• 31:17
  >> Oh yeah. Yeah. YOU CAN'T LET YOUR
• 31:19
  CROWDED SCHEDULE KEEP YOU FROM GETTING
• 31:21
  THERE. YOU GOING TO HAVE TO GO UP ON THE
• 31:23
  ROOF AND TEAR SOMETHING UP.
• 31:28
  >> Said they got on the roof. Catch this.
• 31:30
  And and it said, "So when they had
• 31:32
  broken through,
• 31:34
  this is what the Holy Ghost wouldn't let
• 31:36
  me get past." He said, "Every
• 31:38
  breakthrough is not for you.
• 31:44
  Every breakthrough IS NOT FOR YOU. GOD
• 31:48
  IS CALLING US to create a breakthrough
• 31:50
  for somebody else.
• 31:54
  >> GOD IS CALLING US TO CREATE a They DID
• 31:58
  ALL THIS WORK, NOT FOR THEMSELVES.
• 32:04
  >> THEY DID ALL OF THIS WORK AND CREATED A
• 32:07
  BREAKTHROUGH FOR SOMEBODY ELSE.
• 32:11
  >> This is Bible. You look in Acts where
• 32:13
  where the Bible said Paul and Silas
• 32:15
  prayed and sang praises.
• 32:17
  >> They were singing and singing praises.
• 32:20
  But the Bible said that all of the
• 32:22
  prisoners got loose.
• 32:24
  >> They were SINGING AND PRAISING GOD, BUT
• 32:26
  IT CREATED A BREAKTHROUGH FOR MORE THAN
• 32:27
  JUST THEM.
• 32:28
  >> CAN I TELL YOU THAT GOD WANTS US TO
• 32:30
  CREATE BREAKTHROUGHS NOT JUST FOR
• 32:32
  OURSELVES?
• 32:40
  They were relentless. Somebody shout
• 32:42
  relentless.
• 32:43
  >> Relentless.
• 32:44
  >> They were relentless.
• 32:46
  They were relentless. They didn't allow
• 32:47
  anything to keep them from moving and
• 32:50
  getting this man to Jesus because they
• 32:52
  had a conviction about Jesus's ability
• 32:55
  to heal them. Understand something.
• 32:57
  Community is not a spectator sport.
• 33:01
  >> Community is not a spectator sport.
• 33:03
  These guys got their hands dirty.
• 33:05
  >> Yes. to get this man to Jesus.
• 33:10
  >> Thank you, Lord.
• 33:13
  Understand something. We spend so much
• 33:16
  time praying for God to open doors for
• 33:18
  us.
• 33:20
  But the four friends in Capernaum
• 33:22
  reminded us that sometimes God is
• 33:24
  waiting for us to pick up a shovel
• 33:28
  and create an entrance for our neighbor.
• 33:33
  this can't can don't don't we know Jesus
• 33:36
  well enough so that at least one time we
• 33:38
  can come to church and praise for
• 33:40
  somebody else
• 33:44
  >> do we have enough Holy Ghost and enough
• 33:46
  relationship with God that we can
• 33:48
  rearrange our schedule and it's not for
• 33:51
  our benefit
• 33:56
  >> do do we at least know him well enough
• 34:01
  and have enough relationship with him
• 34:02
  and care enough about the people that's
• 34:05
  around us to pick up a corner.
• 34:09
  >> It's what God is calling us to do.
• 34:12
  >> Number one, it was cooperative faith
• 34:16
  that got him moving. Number two, it was
• 34:19
  relentless faith that got him to Jesus.
• 34:22
  Oh God. But then number three, it was
• 34:26
  transform transformational faith that
• 34:29
  carried car transformational faith
• 34:33
  allowed him to carry what used to carry
• 34:35
  him.
• 34:37
  >> Thank you, Lord.
• 34:40
  >> Transformational faith
• 34:42
  allowed this man to carry what used to
• 34:46
  carry him.
• 34:48
  >> It's it's right here in the text. It's
• 34:50
  right here. Look look at verse 10
• 34:52
  through 12. It says he said to the
• 34:54
  paralytic. Jesus starts talking to the
• 34:56
  paralytic. He said, "I say to you,
• 34:58
  arise,
• 35:00
  >> take up your bed,
• 35:02
  >> and go." Wait a minute. Now you asking
• 35:04
  me. Jesus has healed him. And now he's
• 35:07
  asking him to pick up and carry
• 35:10
  >> what used to carry him.
• 35:13
  >> This is what faith. This is
• 35:15
  transformational faith.
• 35:17
  JESUS TOLD HIM, "PICK UP YOUR bed
• 35:21
  >> and walk home. Walk past the people who
• 35:24
  doubted.
• 35:28
  >> WALK PAST THE PEOPLE WHO SAID YOU WOULD
• 35:30
  NEVER BE ANYTHING.
• 35:32
  >> WALK PAST THE PEOPLE WHO WALKED PAST YOU
• 35:34
  WHEN YOU WERE LAYING ON THE I I'M NOT
• 35:36
  TRYING TO BE THIS KIND OF
• 35:37
  CONFRONTATIONAL CHURCH, BUT YOU GOT TO
• 35:38
  SEE WHAT JESUS IS SAYING."
• 35:41
  >> YES, SIR.
• 35:41
  >> YES, SIR. That's right.
• 35:43
  >> SEE, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THERE'S SOME OF
• 35:45
  YOU OH, THANK YOU, HOLY GHOST. THERE'S
• 35:48
  SOME OF YOU WHO WILL NOT PICK UP YOUR
• 35:50
  mat
• 35:51
  >> because you're ashamed of your mat.
• 35:55
  >> JESUS COULD HAVE JUST HEALED HIM AND
• 35:57
  TOLD HOME.
• 35:58
  >> THAT'S RIGHT.
• 35:59
  >> But he didn't.
• 36:02
  >> He said, "Pick up the very thing
• 36:06
  >> that used to carry you.
• 36:10
  I delivered you from pornography.
• 36:13
  >> Don't act like you were never addicted.
• 36:18
  >> Pick up
• 36:20
  WHAT USED TO CARRY YOU.
• 36:26
  >> You you you you were a single mother
• 36:29
  and they told you you would never be
• 36:31
  anything.
• 36:34
  >> I know I'm preaching good right now. YOU
• 36:36
  WERE A SINGLE MOTHER AND THEY TOLD YOU
• 36:38
  THAT YOU WOULD NEVER BE anything
• 36:41
  >> and they EMBARRASSED YOU,
• 36:44
  >> STOP TALKING to you and it paralyzed you
• 36:50
  >> and Jesus comes and there corporate
• 36:53
  faith somebody gets around you see oh
• 36:55
  God
• 36:58
  the corporate faith comes around them
• 37:00
  get them moving then relentless faith
• 37:02
  get them to Jesus and Jesus heals them
• 37:06
  >> Jesus Jesus don't want you to leave that
• 37:07
  mat.
• 37:09
  >> Jesus wants you to take up that mat.
• 37:13
  >> As a single mother,
• 37:16
  >> not at Oh, thank you, Lord. Not so that
• 37:18
  you can go and tell people, "Ah, see
• 37:19
  what I mean? I ain't need you." No way.
• 37:21
  You see what the Lord had done for me?
• 37:23
  That ain't what this is.
• 37:30
  God deliver me. You see that?
• 37:34
  What is that?
• 37:40
  >> That that's THAT'S THAT'S NOT WHY GOD
• 37:42
  TOLD YOU TO GRAB YOUR MAT
• 37:44
  >> SO THAT YOU CAN TEASE OTHER PEOPLE.
• 37:48
  >> He told you to grab your mat
• 37:50
  >> so that you can show other people ABOUT
• 37:53
  HIS POWER.
• 38:03
  GOD GOD IS CALLING. HE'S SHIFTING OUR
• 38:05
  church
• 38:06
  >> to to to not not not shifting like we
• 38:08
  haven't always done but we have a we
• 38:10
  have an emphasis on
• 38:12
  making disciples
• 38:15
  >> to help people because our evangelism
• 38:18
  team and we are all a part of the
• 38:19
  evangelism team doing a great job and
• 38:21
  people getting saved
• 38:23
  >> but God is calling us to not just go get
• 38:26
  them but go make them. Yeah. Yeah.
• 38:30
  >> He's calling us as in scripture to go
• 38:32
  make disciples. And a part of the kind
• 38:34
  of groups that we're going to have is
• 38:35
  what we call disciplehip groups
• 38:37
  >> where we are going. Some of you have a
• 38:40
  strong relationship with God
• 38:43
  and you've taken up your mat and you're
• 38:45
  walking. Jesus don't want you to take up
• 38:47
  that mat to just show how powerful you
• 38:49
  are
• 38:51
  >> to how much you know about the Bible.
• 38:54
  He wants you to take that mat and go
• 38:56
  find somebody else.
• 38:59
  >> Who just got saved but don't know don't
• 39:01
  know
• 39:02
  >> Adam from Malachi.
• 39:08
  >> See many many Oh God. Thank you. Many of
• 39:10
  us are strong in areas.
• 39:13
  >> I'm going to say it now. Watch this.
• 39:14
  like like in the fast. I heard some of
• 39:16
  you, you saw the the the booklet and you
• 39:19
  opened it up and you saw the food
• 39:21
  restrictions and some people were like,
• 39:24
  I eat like that anyway.
• 39:27
  What is this?
• 39:30
  I know some people said that.
• 39:33
  My god. Supposed to be fasting. What is
• 39:35
  fasting? Supposed to eat like this
• 39:36
  anyway.
• 39:43
  read the Bible.
• 39:44
  >> You mean to tell me there's people
• 39:45
  that's not reading the Bible? I read my
• 39:47
  Bible every day.
• 39:49
  We should be making time for God, right?
• 39:51
  You haven't made time for God already.
• 39:54
  I make time for God every day.
• 39:57
  Can I tell you something? What you're
• 39:58
  doing? You're taking your mat and
• 40:00
  showing it off.
• 40:02
  >> Oh Lord, you showing off your mat like
• 40:05
  it's show and tell.
• 40:08
  >> Like you so great.
• 40:10
  BUT WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO IS TO
• 40:12
  TAKE UP OUR BED, CARRY OUR MAT TO HELP
• 40:14
  SOMEBODY ELSE.
• 40:17
  >> If the fast is easy for you, THEN FIND
• 40:19
  SOMEBODY WHO'S STRUGGLING AND HELP THEM.
• 40:22
  >> IF READING YOUR BIBLE IS EASY FOR YOU,
• 40:24
  FIND SOMEBODY WHO'S STRUGGLING WITH
• 40:25
  READING AND HELP THEM.
• 40:30
  >> That's right.
• 40:33
  >> He's called us to carry a corner.
• 40:40
  What am I singing? Any single mothers in
• 40:42
  here? This is on my heart to do. Single
• 40:45
  moms, stand up. I need four of you right
• 40:48
  quick. Four of you. Come here. Uh-huh.
• 40:51
  Come on. I just need four. One. That's
• 40:53
  Yep. Them two right there. Yep. Come on.
• 40:56
  Come on.
• 40:57
  One, two, three, four. Come on.
• 41:02
  Where the other single moms at? Stand
• 41:04
  up.
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  Where they at? They in here. Y'all in
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  here? Let me Oh yeah. Come here. You in
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  the white shirt. Come here.
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  >> Thank you, Holy Ghost.
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  Lay right there. Lay on that mat. Lay on
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  that mat. Lay right there on that mat.
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  >> Yep. Lay down. I want y'all. Everybody
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  get a corner.
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  >> Make it happen. Make it happen. Make it
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  happen. That's it. Make it happen.
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  That's it. That's it. That's it. That's
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  it. Come back this way. Come back this
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  way. That's it. Make it happen.
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  >> Uh-huh.
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  Lay it down.
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  >> Lay it down.
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  >> Just stay right there. This is what God
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  wants to do.
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  >> I feel the power of God. This is what
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  God wants to do.
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  >> He wants to Yes, sir. Y'all know it. He
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  wants you
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  >> to grab a corner.
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  >> That's so YOU CAN SHOW HOW POWERFUL YOU
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  ARE.
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  >> BUT THERE'S SOMEBODY WHO FEELS LIKE THEY
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  CAN'T GET TO JESUS.
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  THERE'S SOMEBODY WHO IS PARALYZED.
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  >> It's not that they won't come.
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  >> They can't come.
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  >> OH, IT'S THEY CAN'T COME. They can't
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  move.
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  >> You and I CAN'T STAND BACK. BUT ALL
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  SANCTIFIED SOMEBODY. WELL, WHY DON'T
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  THEY JUST STOP? THEY CAN'T STOP.
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  >> Why don't they JUST PUT THE PORNOGRAPHY
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  DOWN? DON'T YOU THINK THEY TRIED?
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  >> WHY DON'T YOU JUST STOP DRINKING? THEY
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  TRIED. Won't you JUST STOP SMOKING? THEY
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  TRIED.
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  >> We were not made
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  >> to do life alone.
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  >> And God has called us.
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  >> Do you hear me?
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  >> GOD IS CALLING US TO CARRY a corner.
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  >> And listen to me. Some of us, the
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  carrying of the corner is stepping out
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  to lead a life group.
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  Amen.
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  >> God is calling you to rearrange your
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  schedule to lead a life group.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> There's a mat that he has picked you up
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  from.
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  >> SOMETHING HE HAS BROUGHT YOU through
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  >> and now you need to help somebody else.
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  >> That's one. But catch this. The rest of
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  us are called to carry our corner. Hear
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  me
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  >> by all of us being a part of a group.
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  Life groups for corneria are not
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  optional.
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  >> We are a church of groups.
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  >> SOMEBODY SHOUT IT. WE ARE
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  >> WE ARE
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  >> a church
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  >> of groups.
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  >> That's good.
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  >> Because let me tell you something.
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  >> Today she's laying down
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  >> and they are carrying her. But when she
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  stays in this group, life will hand one
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  of them something and they will be on
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  the mat and then it'll be her time to
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  carry a corner.
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  >> God is calling us
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  >> to carry a corner.
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  >> Brother, for some that is getting more
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  connected in your church,
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  >> in your relationships.
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  Some of you have dropped your corner in
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  your marriage.
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  >> God said, "Pick it up.
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  >> Pick it up. That other person can't
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  carry it by themselves.
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  >> Pick up your corner."
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  >> God is calling all of us corneria
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  >> to pick up our corner in these groups.
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  >> We have a mission, a mandate from God
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  >> to have more than 100 life group
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  leaders. when we need them because we
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  don't want to put 20 people in a group
• 45:16
  that keeps it from being small. And my
• 45:19
  introverts, I'm looking out for you
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  because you're not going to talk in a
• 45:21
  big group.
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  >> Thank you.
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  >> You want the intimacy of a small group.
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  >> And so the only way we can do that is by
• 45:30
  having more group leaders so that we can
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  keep it small.
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  >> My prayer is that we will make a
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  commitment
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  to be a part of a group.
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  everybody.
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  >> And then for those that God is dealing
• 45:44
  with your heart that you step forward to
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  lead a group and when we all do that,
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  we're carrying our corner. Let's pray.
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  >> Father, in Jesus name, y'all stay right
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  there. Father, in Jesus name, we thank
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  you for your goodness. We thank you for
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  your mercy. Hallelujah. Yes.
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  >> Father, we sense your presence right
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  now.
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  >> And we thank you
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  >> for your love.
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  >> Thank you for your grace.
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  >> Thank you for your mercy. Thank you,
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  Lord, for opening up the scriptures to
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  us to help us to see
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  >> that, Father, we were not made to do
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  life alone. But Lord, you have called us
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  to carry a corner. Lord, you have called
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  us to get up from that mat that's been
• 46:31
  carrying us and for us to take it up
• 46:35
  and to move forward into what it is you
• 46:37
  called us to do.
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  Father, I pray
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  that as we hear your word, that we will
• 46:45
  not just be hearers, but we will be
• 46:47
  doers as well.
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  >> Get the glory out of our lives.
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  >> Is our prayer.
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  >> Use us, Lord.
• 46:56
  Use us. Our storage is empty and we are
• 47:01
  available to you.
• 47:04
  >> We are available to you, Father. We
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  won't make excuses. We will not allow
• 47:11
  the crowding of our schedules to deter
• 47:13
  us. But Lord, we will make a way because
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  we have a conviction
• 47:19
  that you are who you say you are. And if
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  we would do our part, you would do
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  yours. So, Father, we thank you for it
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  now in Jesus name.